Science: Bomb Bother

Britons were confronted with a seemingly unsolvable problem last week
 what to do with vast stocks of poison gas piled up  and unused 
in World War II.

Stored all over England are thousands & thousands (the exact figures
are a military secret) of deadly 500-lb. gas bombs.
For anything but killing, the gas is useless.
Some of it is so lethal that it kills in 30 seconds; nurses must stand
ready with first aid near the workers who manufacture it. British
chemists have considered various schemes: